Adam from NordicVPS has sent me a very nice exclusive offer for LowEndBox readers. For $15/year you can get the following VPS (OVZ128-LEB order link):
- 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
- 15GB storage
- 600GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
For $35/year it upgrades you to OVZ256-LEB (order link) with 256MB/512MB memory, 30GB storage and 1000GB/month data transfer.
No prize for guessing where they copied their plans from. I guess not much competition at this point as BuyVM has already sold out all the stock. BuyVM servers are also located in Fremont (good for Asia), but NordicVPS has its servers in Germany with Hetzner.
Now on annual plans — I understand that it makes sense for the providers. PayPal and credit card merchant accounts take a big chunk out for processing fee, and having fund available up front also helps to build and extend the business. Just that after the RackVM incident — make sure you do your due diligence and backup often 🙂
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@Furu
I’m danish. You are mistaken. There is a threshold and VAT registration is not always required.
What Mike D and NordicVPS is saying is correct.
Besides, if you look closer, you would notice that this a privately held company and not a limited liability company. In other words, the owner himself is financially responsible and can get sued personally for matters relating to his company.
As a customer, this is great. For him, as a merchant, perhaps not so great (e.g. frivolous lawsuits). But I’d say it is a very honest way of doing business.
This is, in fact, also a reason why I didn’t hesitate to do business with NordicVPS. Oh, and they’re Scandinavian.. which is, of course, totally awesome 😉
I’d rather worry about such things as quality of service (the product itself, not customer service).
Hetzner is *the* inexpensive German location used by many low-cost VPS providers. Network quality might not be up to the same standard as some Frankfurt locations. But then again, my recent experience with Hetzner is limited, so I can’t really say.
I’ve had a box with NordicVPS since 9 August and I havn’t had any complaints so far. Also, reviews on WHT seems rather positive overall.
Got one too…seems pretty decent so far, hope they will last for years 😉
I was happy customer for last several months. But now performance is very pure.
Seems they begin to oversell.
the vps looks like pretty good value. maybe next week i will try.
@Ivan I’m sorry to hear you experience poor performance.
All servers has 24GB RAM and RAID10 protected storage (4x Hard Drives) to ensure performance and reliability.
We have dedicated 3 servers to handle this exclusive offer. All servers are purposely Undersold!
Look at disk latency:
http://yfrog.com/nbsda1dayp
I tested nordic’s i/o with “dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k; sync” and so far the node appears to be not oversold and is hitting 700-800MB/s read/write. That’s super for a 128mb plan, but I’m sure it will be down, questions is by how much.
Just ordered and got set up right away. Never used SolusVM, but it works nice. Pointed a leftover domains dns to the ip for the ease of use. I must say the standard debian install comes with a lot enabled, apache2, samba and the regular…
Server seems to be good, its responsive from the netherlands…
Some info:
testfile: http://gratis-pc.nl/100mb.bin
and a benchmark:
# # # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # ## ##### ##### # # # # ###### # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # ## # # # # #### # # # # # ##### ###### # # #### # # Version 5.1.2 Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark Multi-CPU version Version 5 revisions by Ian Smith, Sunnyvale, CA, USA December 22, 2007 johantheghost at yahoo period com 1 x Dhrystone 2 using register variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 x Double-Precision Whetstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 x Execl Throughput 1 2 3 1 x File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1 2 3 1 x File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1 2 3 1 x File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1 2 3 1 x Pipe Throughput 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 x Pipe-based Context Switching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 x Process Creation 1 2 3 1 x System Call Overhead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 x Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1 2 3 1 x Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1 2 3 ======================================================================== BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: vps: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.028stab070.5 -- #1 SMP Fri Sep 17 19:10:36 MSD 2010 Machine: i686 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968") CPU 0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz (5614.1 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET, Intel virtualization 13:39:12 up 12:40, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00; runlevel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Sat Sep 25 2010 13:39:12 - 14:08:46 1 CPU in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 12858743.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 2628.9 MWIPS (7.2 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 3706.3 lps (29.9 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 494046.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 184388.1 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 1387170.2 KBps (30.1 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 963897.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 326563.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 11982.6 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 8581.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 1128.9 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 894919.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 12858743.6 1101.9 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 2628.9 478.0 Execl Throughput 43.0 3706.3 861.9 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 494046.1 1247.6 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 184388.1 1114.1 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 1387170.2 2391.7 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 963897.6 774.8 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 326563.2 816.4 Process Creation 126.0 11982.6 951.0 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 8581.6 2024.0 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 1128.9 1881.5 System Call Overhead 15000.0 894919.5 596.6 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 1062.2too bad…. payment only via 2CheckOut & PayPal – i would have signed up.
narf. cc also, *via* 2checkout, … might be a good idea to replace “2checkout” with something people actually know at first sight. anyways, sorry for the noise.
Has anybody gotten a reply to their tickets? I opened a ticket 5 days ago with basic new setup stuff like having the TUN adapter enabled and setting Reverse DNS, and still haven’t gotten a reply. If you have gotten a reply, how many days did it take? Thanks.
maybe he’s talking this weekend off, I hope.
They answered my ticket regarding some payment issues in 1 minute…
been using it for a week or so, the $30 a year plan…
seems good so far. reverse dns not setup correctly tho.
Not answering simple tech tickets is a hugely bad sign, though.
Makes you wonder, what if the box goes down, you’ll file a ticket, and it’ll be ignored for 5 days just like that.
> They answered my ticket regarding some payment issues in 1 minute…
So they do care about issues that could *prevent you from paying them*, but looks like not much else.
They replied to my ticket and enabled the TUN adapter and set the Reverse DNS. I’m still working through some issues with the date & time with them.
When I ordered I added a note for rdns and tun/nat, I haven’t set up my VPN just yet, but i have checked for rdns and it’s there. So thumbs up for nordic.
Maybe they are slow on rdns for the reason that they try to set a few rdns at once as it involves going to there dc (hetzner) and setting it manually.
Hetzner got panel for Rdns entries, so it shouldn’t be that big of a deal.
is he Ben’s brother?
how come he’s not answering any ticket?
Seems like ticket response is very variable. My first ticket was answered in ~30 minutes, now I’ve been waiting ~30 hours for a response regarding a memory upgrade.
Let’s just hope if anything goes wrong we won’t be left waiting for too long…
They just replied again to my ticket and took care of my remaining issue with the date & time.
This is from some older NordicVPS German node, hosting Xen VPS:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k; sync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 78.7273 s, 13.6 MB/s
Maybe they got abusive users on it, but still it’s damn poor i/o performance.
@dyn Are you on our nodes in Dusseldorf or Falkenstein ? We are aware of poor performance of servers in Dusseldorf and are moving away from that DC!
If you are on a node in Falkenstein, please submit a ticket so we can check it. Thanks
I am not sure, it says FRA02. I will open ticket.
Test Output from FRA02 (XEN PV)
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k; sync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 18.9097 seconds, 56.8 MB/s
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k; sync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.29745 seconds, 828 MB/s
> dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k; sync
As mentioned elsewhere this will give an inflated result, use
> dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
or else you are benchmarking not the HDD but the boxes’ file cache in RAM.
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 11.3054 seconds, 95.0 MB/s
remy@vps:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 12.815 s, 83.8 MB/s
From Falkenstein
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 12.3105 seconds, 87.2 MB/s
On FRA02 node i can’t get more than 24 mb/s, while same test gives me 73+ mb/s on other node.
@dyn I am sorry. You on one of our older nodes.
More stocks to support this offer has been added.
By popular demand, we now provide OVZ512-LEB with 512MB/1024MB memory, 30GB storage and 1000GB/month data transfer – just $60/year
Direct order link: https://nordicvps.com/order/ovz512-leb
Servers are in Falkenstein, Saxony, Germany
For US offers follow us on Twitter.
I am at China, would you give me some San Jose’s order link? Thanks!
@ikbear I can only provide link to a pre-order form for West Coast VPS, the servers will set up as soon as the server is online (24 – 72 hours) – would you be interested in the pre-order ?
I’m interested with West Coast VPS too. Is there any offer with the new location?
@Sei Kan We can provide same OVZ128, OVZ256 and OVZ512 plans on the new server.
@NordicVPS Is there any order link?
Please check out Twitter page (@NordicVPS) for updates and links to the US OpenVZ VPS Offers.
Wow! That’s great! I will definately get some when there are available.
So i pay same price as customers on new nodes, get less performance and all you can say is ‘i am sorry’? Very well, i will stop paying for it.